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>> tom foreman, thank you so much. and joining me now is the governor of guam, republican eddie calvo. governor, thank you for joining me. the north korea government consistently threatened your territory. how seriously are these threats taken at this point? >> yeah, good morning from guam. good evening to you folks there, jake. obviously, we have gotten assurances from the defense department and homeland security in regards to the safety measures. but there is concern from our -- this administration as well as people of guam. if you take a look at a map, korea, the korean peninsula is about three hours flying time from guam. it's about half way the distance it is from guam to hawaii. so we are bucking the asian landmass. when you have a authoritarian dictator like mr. kim and some of the bell koes statements he's been making and the 5:00 tistac of his government, it causes a lot of concern in this american community in guam. >> so governor, calvo, you have been told, i'm sure, that u.s. missile defense systems, the on
>> tom foreman, thank you so much. and joining me now is the governor of guam, republican eddie calvo. governor, thank you for joining me. the north korea government consistently threatened your territory. how seriously are these threats taken at this point? >> yeah, good morning from guam. good evening to you folks there, jake. obviously, we have gotten assurances from the defense department and homeland security in regards to the safety measures. but there is concern from our --...
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for "outfront," tom foreman, washington. >>> still to come, president obama versus the nra. has the gun lobby already won? >>> plus, an american businessman found dead in singapore. police say it was suicide. his family says it doesn't add up. >>> should overweight people pay more to fly? one airline under pressure says, yes. >>> welcome back to the second half of "outfront." we start with stories we care about focusing on our own reporting from the front lines. well, america's role in mali could be expanding. in a visit today, senator john mccain said the united states will assist the french and coalition militaries to provide them with the equipment, training and technology needed to rid mali of terrorists linked to al qaeda. now whether that makes sense depends on how you define equipment saying if equipment is like binoculars and those in the wrong hands would not be a problem. >>> the pentagon is refusing to award purple hearts to victims of the 2009 ft. hood shooting. the reason, the pentagon says they were not the victims of an international terrorist attack. in a def
for "outfront," tom foreman, washington. >>> still to come, president obama versus the nra. has the gun lobby already won? >>> plus, an american businessman found dead in singapore. police say it was suicide. his family says it doesn't add up. >>> should overweight people pay more to fly? one airline under pressure says, yes. >>> welcome back to the second half of "outfront." we start with stories we care about focusing on our own...
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cnn's tom foreman breaks down the plan. >> all eyes remain on the east coast of north korea and these mobile missile launchers carrying the musudan missiles. let's bring in the map and talk about this. if a missile takes off and heads off, blasting into the atmosphere and arcing over to attack, what happens with this satellite up above? >> well, i need to tell you, what that satellite does is it will immediately pick up the i.r. signature, the infrared signal, coming off the launcher. it will immediately tell systems on the ground, systems at sea and systems at air that are all integrated what the telemetry data is saying. >> this is nothing like an airplane coming in to bomb someone? >> no. this is technology we've practiced with and refined over the course of years. this stuff works. >> if we see it headed towards something that matters to us, what happens? >> what happens? u.s. resource, allied resource, we're going to take it out with a high-altitude area defense system. >> there's no wait from the launch to the end of it -- but the humans do get involved and they have a tough dec
cnn's tom foreman breaks down the plan. >> all eyes remain on the east coast of north korea and these mobile missile launchers carrying the musudan missiles. let's bring in the map and talk about this. if a missile takes off and heads off, blasting into the atmosphere and arcing over to attack, what happens with this satellite up above? >> well, i need to tell you, what that satellite does is it will immediately pick up the i.r. signature, the infrared signal, coming off the...
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cnn's tom foreman is at the magic wall. tom, what could happen if north korea were to start a war with some of those conventional weapons? >> wolf, all we're really looking at is a lay of the land here. if you look at north korea up here, you can see it's got this advantage in an interesting way. there's water on both sides makes a big difference because it makes it relatively hard to get in and respond to them. you have the dmz down here where they could reach in to south korea with any kind of attack they wanted to stage there. let's look at the bigger picture of this. it's a small nation so why does it matter. because of their missile capability. some have a range of 430 miles. that completely engulfs all of south korea and reaches over toward japan. their bigger missiles come out to 2,500 miles. we've talked a bit about the idea of some that can go all the way to the u.s. but that technology isn't quite there yet, so they're off the table. there are an awful lot of people. when you talk about the ground forces, 1.1 mill
cnn's tom foreman is at the magic wall. tom, what could happen if north korea were to start a war with some of those conventional weapons? >> wolf, all we're really looking at is a lay of the land here. if you look at north korea up here, you can see it's got this advantage in an interesting way. there's water on both sides makes a big difference because it makes it relatively hard to get in and respond to them. you have the dmz down here where they could reach in to south korea with any...
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cnn's tom foreman, and retired general james "spider" marks tell us about that. >> all eyes on the eastern coast of north korea where the musudan mobile launchers are. let's bring in the map and general talk to me about this. if we have a missile launch the first thing we involve is satellites. >> the satellite will pick up the i.r. signature, the infrared signature of the missile leading the mobile launch. it will indicate where it came from and send tracking data to the integrated system to figure out the polimetry of the missile. >> it measures all where this is going and how fast. >> if the missile threatens a u.s. or allied resource in the region it will be taken out. >> how? >> it will be taken out by an anti-ballistic missile system which is already in place, fully automated, no man in the loop. this works exceptionally well and we practiced with this technology. >> the time it takes off and down is all computers managing everything but there is a tough human decision to be made. >> the demand man in the loop h next. there's a north korea and a south korea, there's nothing in the pl
cnn's tom foreman, and retired general james "spider" marks tell us about that. >> all eyes on the eastern coast of north korea where the musudan mobile launchers are. let's bring in the map and general talk to me about this. if we have a missile launch the first thing we involve is satellites. >> the satellite will pick up the i.r. signature, the infrared signature of the missile leading the mobile launch. it will indicate where it came from and send tracking data to the...